nah, don't worry about it. it wasn't a backhanded troll for comments. i'm just glad you enjoyed it; it was pretty much my first attempt at trying to take the words away from these two.

(incidentally, that is actually my primary irk with AO3. it's brilliant from a consumption perspective, but it's like tumblr for words. click a button if you like and no incentive to engage. ah, but that's a discussion for another day.)

i had seen that quote floating around but didn't realize it was hers. a thousand yeses. i think we'll start to get a lot more traction as a species when we throw men out as a yardstick for anything (same with women too). either/or gets so tiresome; i'd like the world I live in to be both/and (and full of wild purple technicolor too).

(i have not but now i'm intrigued...)